Dictionary entry

Ill-tempered

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ill′–tem″pered (?), a. 1. Of bad temper; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish; fretful; quarrelsome.

2. Unhealthy; ill-conditioned.

So ill-tempered I am grown, that I am afraid I shall catch cold, while all the world is afraid to melt away. Pepys.